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Day in the Life

Jan 15, 1877

Journal Entry

January 15, 1877 ~ Monday

15 we set apart 9 Missionaries to Mexico & ordained 7 to the
Office of seventies WW Ordained 3, & set apart 3. assisted in the
rest Brigham Young jr & Myself wrote out a part of the ceremony
of the Endowment we rode out in the afternoon got the Horses dow[n]
in a mud hole got 3 quails & come home I spent the Evening
^[FIGURES]^ with President Young. He told me their was No Necessity of dressing in the Temple Clothing while giving the second Anointing any more than in administering the first Anointing or Ordaining He
also said that we should use the Bible in the garden & Bible & Book
of Mormon in the Telestial room and add the Covenants to it in the
Terrestial Room.

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3299 mentions
Apostle, Family
Young, Brigham (Jr.)
18 Dec 1836 - 11 Apr 1903
541 mentions
Apostle

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Mexico

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1877
Church membership reaches 115,065.
February 23, 1877
Wilford receives revelation authorizing proxy ordinances for his family by non-relatives.
March 1, 1877
In honor of Wilford's 70th birthday, 154 women serve as proxies in ordinances for his deceased female relatives.

Jan 15, 1877